More than a decade ago, before the Internet bubble burst, investors focused on return on capital. Today they seem more concerned with risk-adjusted returns. They want to know that their hard-earned ...

Much of the confusion about what an absolute-return portfolio is arises from the rather cavalier way that some of these funds are labeled. Many funds are advertised as absolute-return plays simply ...

Putnam Investments has developed what the firm calls the first suite of target-date funds that integrate target absolute return strategies with traditional mutual funds. Challenged by market ...

As a concept or a strategy, absolute return never fails to stir an emotion from fund buyers. Despite opinions being split, funds offering downside risk protection, but with an aim to beat inflation or ...

Watching institutional investors achieve big gains in alternative investments has whet retail demand for mutual funds that incorporate alternative strategies. This desire has fueled an interest in ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Investors who bought into "absolute return" funds hoping to make money in relentlessly turbulent trading are instead finding their capital eroded in markets that are making a habit ...

NEW YORK, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Putnam Investments says demand for absolute return mutual funds, strong over the past two years, will accelerate as more investors seek hedge fund strategies to navigate ...

Cliff Asness' longest running multistrategy fund at AQR Capital Management returned 18.5% last year, net of fees, according to a person familiar with the performance. The AQR Absolute Return strategy, ...

The ARCO Absolute Return Fund has been added to the BT Panorama platform, which the manager said would provide more advisers and their clients with access to its 10-year track record of managing the ...

The investment seeks a high level of total return that is consistent with preservation of capital. Under normal market conditions, the fund will invest at least 80% of its investable assets (net ...

The investment seeks total return. The fund's primary strategy consists of selling and purchasing put and call options on equity indexes and exchange traded funds. The sale of put options generates ...